Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Gift Idea

I saw these on someone else's blog and thought they would make cute Christmas gifts for a few teacher friends. All you need is a picture frame, cork board tiles, thumbtacks, and flowers (I made mine from scrapbook paper). You just remove the glass from the frame and cut the cork to fit. Then you hot glue some flowers to the thumbtacks and taaaa-daaaa! It looks super cute standing up on the desk with little notes on it.

If you haven't used Mod Podge before... you haven't lived! I am obsessed. My boyfriend even put some in my stocking this year because he knows how much I love it. All you do is paint the Mod Podge on the clipboard and stick down some scrapbook paper and decorate with ribbon. I made 9 of these in a few hours. If you are going to do that many, I suggest making a template because the cuts around the top are kinda tricky if you start from scratch each time. With the template, they are super easy and everyone seemed to love them. Target has a set of REALLY cute school scrapbook paper that I love using.

I have enjoyed reading your blog. You have a lot of great ideas. I would love to get the directions to the George Washington and Cat in the Hat activities. Would it be possible to get the directions and if so how?

Honestly, I can't even put it into words that would make sense, but I will give it a try. lol. I used a ruler to measure how far the bottom of the "clip" part was from the top of the board. Then I measured how far across. Then I kind of just eye-balled it and cut from the top down at an angle to the mark I made for the bottom of the clip. If you kind of just play around with it, on scratch paper first, then I traced that onto an old file folder to make a more stable file folder template.

I really enjoyed touring your room! You have lots of neat ideas; I will be borrowing some. I especially like your Oops Discipline idea in the folder and would really appreciate a copy. I like the fact that the student is responsible for documenting his own inappropriate behavior. My email is mmleahy@bellsouth.net. Thanks so much.

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